20/20 last night

These kids were on TV last night. Sponsored by 17 companies or something like that. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of compensation and merch. An eager and enthusiastic father...

Mike V's Youtube Page

THIS is a good spot to check out. Mike's philosophy about the potential of skateboarding in personal development. Who can agree with everything anyone says? That would be silly. But I find this a great place to hear from a guy who has really thought this through. ...who has really lived this through.

and it hammers some of the stuff that trips so heavily in skateboarding today, along the lines of conformity to the "outlaw" ethos, as well as the "sport/jock" aspects of Olypmic possibilities and "soccer mom" culture...

Solid Philosophical Integrity

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Enjoy this vid. It's Mike V laying down the fundies of what skateboarding can mean to a person. I like this because it lays skateboarding wide open to all comers, and puts prevalent elitism and snobbery to rest.

PS: some youngster asked me yesterday why it was wrong for him to push mongo. you can guess what I told him...